Transport Museum Wythall unveils new programme for 2026

TRANSPORT Museum Wythall is gearing up for the 2026 season, with a new range of themed events.

A total of 11 themed events will take place during the year, including the return of the Harrington Owners Gathering and London Comes to Wythall – a tribute to Daimler in its 130th year, a dive into the 1970s and a review of 40 years of Deregulation.

The museum has created a new exhibition for the 2026 season looking at Birmingham’s iconic Outer Circle bus route that opened 100 years ago in April.

The number 11 is a 27-mile orbital route with 266 bus stops that encircles the city’s outer suburbs and is today operated by National Express West Midlands.

It is a famous ‘Brummie’ icon and was once Europe’s longest urban bus route. The comprehensive exhibition explores the route and its buses.

2026 follows another successful year for Transport Museum Wythall, maintaining its visitor numbers at circa 18,000 in an ongoing period of cost-of-living challenges.

This year includes the return of the Bristol Owners Gathering when the museum’s Bristol buses will mix with visiting examples, presenting the wide range of buses.

The Harrington Gathering is also back this year, now established as a regular event.  The sounds of fire engines, police cars and ambulances will ring out on blues and twos, then the museum will celebrate the Coventry built Daimler bus in its 130th year with a display of their own fleet alongside early Daimler cars from the British Motor Museum.

Visit wythall.org.uk/ for more information.